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'The Kinuta', 1775, (1924). Women beating cloth, and listening to a cricket. The Japanese word kinuta refers to a fulling block, a wooden mallet for beating washing or to give a shine to cloth. From the "Ehon Yotsu-No-Toki" by Kitao Shigemasa, [1775]. Published in "Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan", by Louise Norton Brown. [George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., E. P. Dutton & Co., London & New York, 1924]